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Ukraine today pulled off one of the most audacious attacks of the war — a coordinated attack on four Russian air fields and a naval base by a special operation called Spiderweb. This one is right up there with the sinking of the Moskva and the truck bomb attack on the Kerch Bridge.
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One Minute Park lets you spend sixty seconds in a park somewhere in the world. You can also upload a minute long video here.
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The tech tree is an interactive visualization of technological history from 3 million years ago to today. A work in progress, it currently contains 1798 technologies and 2055 connections between them.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a report showing that Musk’s net worth has increased by more than $100 billion since Election Day. The report (12 pages) lists the many ways in which he used his position in the federal government to stop investigations into his companies, undercut regulations, win federal contracts, gain access to data and sensitive information, attack his enemies, meddle in elections, and secure foreign deals, all without informing the American people of his conflicts of interest.
posted by subdee to MetaFilter on Jun 4 at 2:32 AM
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The late Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru (previously) was an Ethiopian nun whose unique piano stylings remained largely obscure outside her home country, only finding wider acclaim late in life via the Ethiopiques series. That release comprised her two first albums, originally self-released to raise funds for humanitarian purposes, but this was not all her recorded music! Though Gebru preferred playing live, to small audiences, she did record occasionally, and Mississippi Records has gotten hold of and restored her nearly lost work from the '70s and '80s.
posted by BlackLeotardFront to MetaFilter on Jun 5 at 11:10 AM
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Gay Native American actor Jonathan Joss, known from Parks and Rec and as the voice actor of John Redcorn on King of the Hill, was shot dead by a neighbor outside of his home in San Antonio, in what his husband has stated was the culmination of a campaign of homophobic harrassment and violence that had also involved the burning down their house and the killing of their dog. San Antonio police apparently did nothing about the numerous complaints received.
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For more than two decades Hu Anyan was one of the 300 million internal migrant workers who are the lifeblood of the world’s second-biggest economy. For nearly 10 years he recorded his observations on a second-hand Huawei phone, an early Chinese-made rival to the first generation of iPhones, with a clunky Android operating system and a screen resolution about one-fifth of the quality of today’s devices.
For Hu the ''Beauty of ‘Ordinary Things’ is a Refuge From Reality.
“I Deliver Packages in Beijing” is a captivating memoir offering an unflinching look into the life of a delivery driver in China’s bustling capital.
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Today in one sentence: Trump threatened to cancel Elon Musk’s federal contracts, called him “crazy” and accused him of suffering from “Trump derangement syndrome”; Musk responded by saying Trump is “in the Epstein files,” floated creating a new political party, predicted a recession from Trump’s tariffs and tax and spending bill, endorsed impeaching Trump, ordered SpaceX to decommission its Dragon spacecraft used by NASA, and claimed that “Without me, Trump would have lost the election."
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mitxela - Precision Clock Mk IV
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A somewhat savage profile in which TNY's Ava Kofman spends what seems like way too much time with the progenitor of the "Dark Enlightenment," highlighting the way that he's become an intellectual leading light of the second Trump Administration while also noticing that Yarvin's philosophy, to the extent you can call it a philosophy, doesn't really hang together even on its own terms.
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The Aperiodical is a "magazine and blog for people who already know they like maths and would like to know more." They publish interviews, news, games, and more, such as satirical book covers and a new counting-forwards integer sequence suitable for a lullaby. They also host a monthly "Carnival of Mathematics" linking to "mathematics-related blog posts, YouTube videos or other online content". (Previously: π Day puns, The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, a card trick.)
posted by brainwane to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 11:16 AM
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Django Reinhardt, St�233;phane Grappelli and the Quintette du Hot Club de France -- Jazz Hot (1938)

St�233;phane Grappelli --Live In San Francisco (1982)

Rob Wasserman, St�233;phane Grappelli -- Somewhere Over the Rainbow (1988)
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Welcome to the first Pride Month LGBTQIA+ News Post. We're all beautiful on our own way.. Let's get things started with a list of pride festivals across the world!
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AI Hallucination Cases Paris research fellow Damien Charlotin is compiling misuse of AI from legal decisions around the world. "This database tracks legal *decisions* in cases where generative AI produced hallucinated content – typically fake citations, but also other types of arguments. It does not track the (necessarily wider) universe of all fake citations or use of AI in court filings." Click the arrows under "Details" at the far right to get juicy details about each case.
posted by mediareport to MetaFilter on May 31 at 8:11 PM
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The most successful version of the most powerful tool humanity has ever created was born in a place where war now rages. That tool is human language, without which we would never have achieved the social organization and transmission of knowledge that have made us masters of the planet. Although the tongue called Proto-Indo-European hasn’t been used in 4,000 years, about half Earth’s inhabitants speak its more than 400 descendant languages: English, the Romance languages of Europe, the Slavic and Baltic languages, the Celtic languages of Wales and Ireland, Armenian, Greek, and languages spoken in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran. from Mankind’s Greatest Invention [Slate]
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Corgi on a skateboard, corgi on a skateboard, corgi on a skateboard, corgi on a skateboard, corgi on a skateboard, corgi on a skateboard, corgi on a skateboard (corgi on a skateboard, corgi on a skateboard)
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The Video Game History Foundation (previously) has unveiled a collection of over 100 hours of video from Cyan’s history, including interviews and production footage, from the original Myst game (1993) all the way to Myst V: End of Ages (2005.)
They also posted a highlight video.
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"We Jam Econo catches a lot of what made the Minutemen great, from Boon’s jagged riffs to Watt’s laser-focused aesthetic vision. But unlike so many other behind-the-scenes rock-docs, it’s haunted not by band conflict, but by the massive loss to music and the culture at large when Boon was killed."
posted by Lemkin to MetaFilter on May 31 at 7:13 AM
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Administration officials blocked publication of written analysis that normally accompanies the (farm trade) report because they disliked what it said about the trade deficit... ...namely, that it is rising, not shrinking, under Trump's tariffs.
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Say what you will about the uneven expansion of Medicaid, it created a natural laboratory to study its cost effectiveness: "Mortality reductions accrued not only to older age cohorts, but also to younger adults, who accounted for nearly half of life-years saved due to their longer remaining lifespans and large share of the low-income adult population. [...] Our findings suggest that lack of health insurance explains about five to twenty percent of the mortality disparity between high- and low-income Americans." Saved by Medicaid: New Evidence on Health Insurance and Mortality from the Universe of Low-Income Adults (NEBR)
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Hi! It's me! That woman writing about her garden centre copy job could literally be me! I've been writing copy of one kind or another for about twenty years, covering a wide range of topics. Freelance copy is wonderful because it means you learn about heaps of different things, get to work with different people - all over the world these days -... [more]
posted by Jilder to MetaFilter on May 31 at 9:57 PM
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I have a whole new level of respect for Zelenskyy knowing now that he had this plan in the works during the whole "you don't have the cards!" schtick from Trump and Vance when they ambushed him at the white house. Seems he had pretty friggin' good cards, actually. He just knew to keep them close to the chest. This seems like a massive... [more]
posted by mrjohnmuller to MetaFilter on Jun 1 at 4:42 PM
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What specifically about Swift is it that makes a certain kind of Metafilterian feel compelled to declare either how unfamiliar they are with her work or how much they don't like it? It's weird. I, for instance, don't feel any need to go into discussions of, say, the Rolling Stones to inform people of how little of their music I've listened to.... [more]
posted by signal to MetaFilter on May 31 at 5:35 AM
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only slightly creepy oh you mean she did the kind of thorough reporting people are often complaining that journalists don't do anymore [view]
posted by sickos haha yes dot jpg to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 11:10 AM
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Curious to hear about people's thoughts about this pop-science trend. But it's not pop science, it's fraud. [view]
posted by mittens to MetaFilter on Jun 4 at 8:07 AM
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Same as the other folks. Under pay people, exploit labor. Etc. etc. Or just sell 115+ million albums, sellout concerts worldwide, and make a pile of cash off of licensing your work. Not all earnings need to be garnered via exploiting others. If anything, she has set the example of not hording her earnings. I don't own a single album... [more]
posted by SegFaultCoreDump to MetaFilter on May 30 at 8:27 PM
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Metafilter's fervent support for the Trump administration continues to surprise me, but I guess this is what they wanted. what, and I cannot say this enough, the actual fuck? [view]
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese to MetaFilter on Jun 3 at 8:18 AM
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I always feel like tracking everything* happens when people don't have a strong theory of what the self is, or a theory of what a good life is. Tracking all this stuff gestures toward some vague idea of "efficiency" or "improvement" or "happiness" but doesn't really go anywhere. All that improving and for why? I... [more]
posted by Frowner to MetaFilter on Jun 1 at 7:05 AM
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I will note that many of my friends from the usenet era were approached for background on yarvin (who was a regular in our circle; the reporter trolled the newsgroups for people who interacted with him and tracked people down to today, only slightly creepy) and as far as I'm aware, everyone told the reporter to go to hell. We have known all along... [more]
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I have a personal confession to make: I have never used an LLM of any sort. It's not a perfect simile, but I look at it kind of like having never gone to a strip club. No offense to sex workers (who are human beings doing dignified, skilled labor), but I find the entire affair (who goes there generally and why, who owns the place and makes money... [more]
posted by Smedly, Butlerian jihadi to MetaFilter on Jun 3 at 11:18 AM
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National security is just a gentleman's agreement to not break norms: it's the same as the lock on my front door, which seems absurd given that there are a dozen glass windows which provide easier access. I was thinking basically this, in different images: This is why it's a good idea to get along with your neighbors. The ways they... [more]
posted by actuallyquite to MetaFilter on Jun 1 at 10:43 PM
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Thank you for not mincing words in the title. Some outlets reported it in passive voice, since the facts were still murky. Now that further details have emerged, it's important that we be absolutely clear what this was. [view]
posted by wanderlost to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 5:50 PM
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The New Yorker, CNN, all these other outlets are legitimizing his sewage by talking about it. Nonsense. It isn't going to go away simply because you ignore it. If it's, in fact, informing the current regime in Washington, it needs to be exposed and talked about. Trying to ignore it only allows it to grow on its own terms without being... [more]
posted by Thorzdad to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 11:08 AM
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The TU-95 is the Russian counterpart to the B-52. Except that the US has more B-52s in mothballs than Russia has TU-95s in active service. And that's not even including Kate, Cindy, Fred, and Keith! [view]
posted by TheWhiteSkull to MetaFilter on Jun 1 at 7:44 PM
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Pop stars who are women are traditionally treated this way here and it's predictable and boring. No one needs to hear about how you're so above the music she makes, or how it's "not for you." We weren't worried about if it was for you. [view]
posted by tiny frying pan to MetaFilter on May 31 at 5:43 AM
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Lighten up, Fran945773135996324600631369096557657373753793cis. [view]
posted by Horace Rumpole to MetaFilter on May 30 at 8:13 PM
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...and then blowing up a bunch of Tupolevs with the EV anyway [view]
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace to MetaFilter on Jun 1 at 4:23 PM
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Van Morrison burned every ounce of interest I have in him with his COVID-denial bullshit. I'm going to wait until he's dead to see what's worth salvaging. [view]
posted by Playdoughnails to MetaFilter on Jun 4 at 10:29 PM
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I just don't understand how he becomes influential. It's simple - he provides "justification" to the wealthy for their greed and antisocial behavior. Nothing more. [view]
posted by NoxAeternum to MetaFilter on Jun 2 at 12:11 PM
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DC person here: I’m reading this as a dare. [view]
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